Perhaps areas of Israel where CURRENT LARGE Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli EXPANSION into the West Bank to include most of EAST Jerusalem.

My first visit to West BERLIN was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a WALL that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and INTENSITY of it REALLY knocked me out.

If the 'Post' can play the ROLE of a connector between the WEST and the East, I have CONFIDENCE in the paper's future success.

New York is the opposite of East GERMANY, the crown of individuality. That's why I can work well here and find out what I PERSONALLY think of the pieces I'm learning. I can lay ASIDE all the BAGGAGE of German education. In any case, whatever I do, I can't lose it altogether.

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. WITHOUT doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them ALMOST comic. But the CAST is CONSTANTLY changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

When I first started the show, I was KNOWN as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East VILLAGE EVERY day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a REAL one to ride around with these GUYS.

'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's SECOND BOOK, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of EAST Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is REVERENCE.

The United STATES SUPPORTS a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the WEST, with both RUSSIA and EUROPE.

I GREW up in the EAST Village, in Alphabet CITY, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little BIT invisible.

I could've SHOT the WHOLE East Village, because it was and is my NEIGHBORHOOD. But Seventh STREET is precious to me.

I certainly know that on our first tour of America in 1968, David Crosby came to see us BACKSTAGE at the Fillmore East in New York, and I was very PLEASED to meet him from Buffalo Springfield and that kind of STUFF. He didn't ask me anything about the music, but he said, 'Where'd you GET your clothes, man?'

I grew up in east Tennessee, and EVERYBODY knew everybody's BUSINESS.

When I GET some time off, I LIKE to GO back to my roots in the NORTH EAST. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

We FACE NEITHER EAST nor WEST: we face FORWARD.

I FELT like I RELATED to East COAST lyricism a LITTLE more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.